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Hi guys!
I've been following competitive StarCraft for a little bit (not very long! ^_^; and so far I'm enjoying the fandom, the analyses and other stuff. But sometimes when I read threads here I see you guys use the word 'hwaiting' and I'm not really sure what it means exactly.
From the context I think you guys are cheering for a specific team or player? Because I see stuff like "Flash hwaiting" or "SKT hwaiting" and things like that. Are you implying that they're waiting for something? Like is it meant to mean that they're waiting for their win or their next victim?
I also just assumed that the 'h' is added at the front because of some TL meme? I thought maybe an affluent member typed hwaiting instead of waiting and it became a meme?
Thanks for any answers I get guys ^_^ I hope to enjoy many games of StarCraft with you guys =)
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United States5162 Posts
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I think it comes from "fighting", but I`m not quite sure.
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Yes when Koreans say ”fighting” the ”f” sound often comes out sounding a bit like ”hw”.
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You've been *taking of sunglasses* trololled.
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ALLEYCAT BLUES50600 Posts
it means fighting.
usually during the countdown before the game you can hear the fans at the studio go"3,2,1 x(player's real name) HWAITING!!"
Example:"3,2,1 Lee Young Ho(Flash) HWAITING!!!
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United States7639 Posts
loooool
h waiting
i am clearly way too asian, because it's never even occured to me that hwaiting could be pronounced any other way than fighting without the f.
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its a word that means gogogo or you can do it its encourgament comes from figthing but koreans have hard time pronunciating "f" so they HW (hwaiting) but its figthing :D
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"1 2 3 TEEEEEEEEEEEEWAAAAAAAANN HWAITING!"
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GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
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Up until about 2 weeks ago i though Hwaiting came from something Hwasin did. I´ve been following korean starcraft since 2006. True story.
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Registering an account and creating a two paragraph thread takes significantly longer than Googling... just a hunch.
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Whats with the hate this thread is legit.
OP HWAITING~~
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Dont be so harsh guys as you can clearly see she is new here 
Lilly hwaiting
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"Flash hwaiting" is the only appropriate use of the word.
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I pray that this thread, remains unclosed.
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Bisutopia19299 Posts
On February 17 2012 23:17 worked13 wrote:
Registering an account and creating a two paragraph thread takes significantly longer than Googling... just a hunch.
It also took her 4 days to create this OP. 4 Days hwaiting!
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I don't think I've ever come across a word that has been mis-pronounced by a culture because it's 'cool' to use english words, that is then taken in its new form and pronounced as such by practitioners of the original language, because it's 'cool'. Strange.
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EPT
